Regional law firm Thrings, which has an office in Bristol, has continued to develop its staff by appointing two new partners, three senior associates and seven associates in its annual promotions round. The new partners are Emily Prout, a dispute resolution specialist and head of the firm’s contentious probate...
West of England businesses are warning that the economic recovery from the pandemic is at risk due to growing inflationary pressures and worker shortages. A third of the 250-plus firms taking part in the latest quarterly survey by regional business group Business West said they had to increase their prices...
Monday October 11 Interims: XP Power Economic announcements: Manufacturing production, Gross domestic product, Industrial production, Index of services, Balance of trade Tuesday October 12 Finals: DX, Maestrano Group, YouGov Economic announcements: Retail sales, Unemployment count, Claimant rate count Wednesday October 13 Final: Applied Graphene Materials Interims: Angling Direct, Sanderson Design Group Trading announcement: Marstons...
A key development scheme described as a once in a generation opportunity for Bristol has taken a step forward following a funding approval by Bristol City Council’s cabinet. The regeneration of Temple Quarter and St Philip’s Marsh could create 22,000 new jobs, up to 10,000 new homes and boost...
The annual Bristol Technology Festival starts today with the first of more than 50 highly anticipated events over the next five days. The festival, launched in 2019, aims to showcase the sheer scale of technology emerging from Bristol’s ecosystem while also sharing the stories of the entrepreneurs, engineers and...
Access Creative College has officially opened phase two of its Bristol city centre campus with a launch event that not only showed off the new space in all its glory but also paid homage to the site’s previous life as a legendary music venue and amusement arcade. The building...
Small businesses in Bristol and across the West of England are being offered help to improve their digital presence to enable them to grow. The Tech for Growth programme will match businesses with a consultant and support them with up to four days of hands-on assistance to develop and...
The corporate team at national law firm Foot Anstey has advised on two major deals for rapidly expanding managed service provider Air IT. The acquisitions of MFG UK and Infinity IT Solutions are the latest in a string of takeovers by Nottingham-based Air IT, which provides a portfolio of...
An innovative technology platform to provide legal services to fast-growth companies in the tech sector throughout their life-cycle has been started by Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon. Aimed at start-ups, scale-ups, founders and investors, BScale will offer a depth of knowledge to enable them to work through mission-critical funding rounds, the inevitable...
Siobhan Fitzgerald, a partner in Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT’s national employment team, has been appointed a fee-paid judge of the Employment Tribunal by the Lord Chancellor. Siobhan, pictured, who will continue in her current role as a partner at TLT, will work as a judge in the Employment Tribunal’s...
Employees of Bristol-based outsourced human resources franchise firm The HR Dept are to take over ownership of the business in a succession plan drawn up by its founder. Sue Tumelty, who launched the firm in 2002, said the move would safeguard its vision and culture. Having started out as...
Regional law firm BLB Solicitors, which has offices in and around Bristol, has appointed Caroline Entwistle as its new head of commercial property. The role became vacant earlier this year when the firm’s previous head of commercial property Richard Bowater was promoted to joint managing partner. Caroline, pictured, joined...
Bristol-based utilities scale-up The Bunch and Glide, the Clevedon-headquartered utilities and bill splitting company, have partnered with StuRents, the UK’s largest student accommodation search platform, to provide its users with all-inclusive utility packages directly through its site. The Bunch was launched in 2017 by then-student Elliott Herrod-Taylor and consolidates...
